Here we are

To stay.

Welcome to my five hundredth blog post!

Wow! 500 blog posts, who knew I was that verbose? My mom knew when I was about thirteen and would spend hours on the phone with my best friend who lived down the street, but anyway. I've blabbed about my life, my career, my husband, my dogs, and my projects. And what better way to enter the next era of my blog than announcing the most insane thing I've ever agreed to our next huge project.

The ROOF!

And all I have to say about it is h.o.l.y. s.h.i.t THE ROOF.

I'm all for do it yourself projects. I've built a deck, made a garden bed, painted, sanded, installed, ripped out, spackled everything under the sun and I watch DIY Network all the time but really? A roof? By ourselves? We decided to go with a metal roof, tan steel. It should keep our house much cooler which will be a huge benefit since we don't have air conditioning, and it should look pretty cool too. But, um, a roof? Stay tuned to the Heather Ink network for all the upcoming insanity success! YIKES! YAY!

May my limbs live to see the next 500 posts.

All ears!

I may or may not have said the magic word. T-R-E-A-T.

Treasure hunting

Here's my fun garage sale finds for the day, a gold glitter tray that is amazing and really rad gold earrings that will look great while I hang out with my tray. Lastly is an avocado recipe books that looks like it's out of the late '60s or early '70s. I'm not sure, when did Los Angeles have a ZIP code of 54? I love the glowing guacamole and burning candles. And, inside tucked in with avocado recipes is a newspaper clipping with the title "Ex-Fatty Teen Cooks For Fun."

How was your weekend?

We had a little knock coming from the trunk of the car that was making me crazy, crazier. So we disassembled the trunk interior and...

We had to figure out exactly where the rattling was coming from, right? But it was a success. We tightened up a few bolts and the car feels great again, like new. Hooray! And I might have taken a turn or two a little quicker than I should have. All in all a win win.

And, we fixed the TV!

It died about two weeks ago and we thought it was a cooling fan that died. We got ordered a new fan, installed it, and it didn't work. We dug a bit deeper into the TV's guts and found a charred area on a circuit board. Thomas found the part, we clipped off the burned one and soldered on the new one and poof! A revitalized TV!

After two successes we decided to try for a third. The car's CD changer had jammed and was holding a half dozen discs hostage for the last year. We had to rip out what seemed like the entire front half of the car to get to the radio but eventually we made it. Then we had to remove 45,000 screws to get to the center of the Tootsie-Pop.

We freed our CDs, we didn't end up with a working changer but we did have fun. I hope your weekend was full of fun, too!

Perfect and lovely

The evening started out simple enough. I went to jazzercise, stopped and talked to my best neighbor friend for a few minutes and came home to snack on almonds. Then Thomas finished work and made cocktails for us, we chatted and had another. We watched a little tv and when the show ended Thomas said let's take a walk on the beach. OK. The air was warm and the sand was damp and cool. The pier was a golden glow. What a night, what a lovely night.